The Road to Samarkand, the Colors and Splendor of Uzbekistan

The exhibition “The Road to Samarkand, the Colors and Splendor of Uzbekistan” at the Arab World Institute will present more than 300 exhibits from 9 museums of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

It will include collections of textile, costume, foot and headwear, jewelry of the late 19th – mid-20th centuries, gold-embroidered chapans from the Bukhara Emirate period, as well as paintings of the Turkestan avant-garde from the collections of state museums of Uzbekistan. As part of the exhibitions at the Louvre and the Arab World Institute, research catalogs with articles by international and local experts will be published.